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Not For Sale publishes original reporting, field investigations, and frontline stories from the intersection of modern-day slavery, ecocide, and social innovation. Our coverage draws on nearly two decades of on-the-ground presence across six continents — documenting what is happening, who is affected, and what is being built in response.

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Human Trafficking
World Cup Human Trafficking: What the 2026 FIFA Tournament Reveals About Modern-Day Slavery
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup moves across North America, authorities are warning that traffickers may exploit the tournament’s surge in travel, temporary work, lodging demand and fast-moving money.
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Human Trafficking
Women Trafficked Into Cyber Scam Centers
Women trafficked into cyber scam centers in Asia are exposing a fast-growing form of modern-day slavery, where digital fraud, forced criminality and gender-based violence are being used together by organized crime networks.
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Human Trafficking
What Is Happening in Congo? Everything You Need to Know About Goma, Mining, Ebola, Forced Labor and Ecocide
Discover the complex intersections of Ebola outbreak mining regions with human trafficking. Learn how these crises impact lives and what actions can be taken.
2 days ago3 min read →
Human Trafficking
The City Behind the Screen: TK Nziyonvira on Goma, Conflict and the Work of Not For Sale DRC
Not For Sale CEO Mark Wexler speaks with TK Nziyonvira about Goma, the conflict in eastern DRC, and why dignified local livelihoods are one of the strongest answers to modern-day slavery.
5 days ago3 min read →
Human Trafficking
Ecocide Terms and Definitions: A Complete Glossary for Human Trafficking, Forced Labor and Environmental Harm
A clear glossary of the key terms behind ecocide, environmental destruction, forced labor, human trafficking, illegal extraction and the systems that connect harm to people with harm to nature.
5 days ago40 min read →
Social Innovation
Social Innovation Terms and Definitions: A Complete Glossary for Human Trafficking, Ecocide and Systems Change
A clear glossary of the key terms behind social innovation, social enterprise, systems change and regenerative solutions, explaining how Not For Sale uses these methods to prevent human trafficking and ecocide.
6 days ago8 min read →
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking Terms and Definitions: A Complete Glossary of Modern Slavery, Exploitation and Prevention
A clear, evidence-led glossary explaining the key terms behind human trafficking, modern slavery, forced labor, exploitation, digital slavery, ecocide and prevention.
6 days ago10 min read →
Human Trafficking
Los Angeles Sex Trafficking Arrests: What the Figueroa Corridor Case Reveals About the Risks Facing Young Girls
A federal trafficking case in Los Angeles has exposed how girls and young women can be targeted through foster care instability, online recruitment, motel networks and the wider systems that allow exploitation to continue in plain sight.
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Human Trafficking
Amazon Illegal Gold Mining: The Ecocide Crisis Behind Brazil’s Ghost Gold Permits
Illegal gold mining in the Amazon is exposing how environmental destruction, Indigenous land invasions, mercury pollution and forced labour risks can be hidden behind the global gold trade.
7 days ago3 min read →
Human Trafficking
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons 2026: Why This Year’s Official Human Trafficking Prevention Day Matters
On 30 July 2026, the UN’s World Day Against Trafficking in Persons will spotlight people trafficked into scam compounds and forced to commit online fraud.
7 days ago1 min read →
Human Trafficking
Southeast Asia’s Scam-Centre Trafficking Crisis: How Human Trafficking Became the Labour Force of Global Cybercrime
A new generation of scam centres across Southeast Asia is exposing how human trafficking has moved into the digital economy, with people recruited through fake jobs, trapped in guarded compounds and forced to carry out online fraud against victims around the world.
7 days ago3 min read →
Human Trafficking
How U.S. Tech Became the Hidden Infrastructure of Digital Slavery
The global scam industry is not only powered by criminal gangs. New reporting shows it is also being enabled by the same digital tools and infrastructure that shape everyday online life.
8 days ago19 min read →